Aníbal Sánchez

  • AL ERA champion in 2013

Aníbal Alejandro Sánchez, Jr. ( born February 27, 1984 in Maracay, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan baseball player in the MLB.

Sánchez was taken as a 17 -year-old from the Boston Red Sox as a free agent contract. He spent two years playing for the Red Sox in the Venezuelan Summer League, then an elbow surgery had to undergo, and returned a year later back in a farm team of the Red Sox. After his first season in the American League, he was named after Hanley Ramirez, Brandon Moss, Jonathan Papelbon and Jon Lester as the fifth best junior players in the United States. By the end of the 2005 season, Sanchez remained in the farm system, the Red Sox for the 2006 season and was bound together with Hanley Ramírez, Jesús Delgado and Harvey García in exchange for Josh Beckett, Guillermo Mota, and Mike Lowell from the Florida Marlins. During the 2006 season, Sánchez played for the Carolina Mudcats, but finally made ​​his debut in the MLB June 25, 2006. With good performances he could have a place in the starting rotation of the Marlins secure, among other things, he defeated the New York Yankees with Roger Clemens. On 6 September 2006 Sánchez succeeded in the 2-0 victory for the Florida Marlins in the Arizona Diamondbacks a no-hitter. This no-hitter presented, among other reasons constitutes a specific feature, because in this game six newcomers ( Rookies ) stood for the Marlins on the field, as many as in any other no-hitter before. Sánchez was only the 19th freshman since 1900, which managed a no-hitter, and there was only the fourth in the history of the Florida Marlins to Al conductor, Kevin Brown and AJ Burnett. He was also only the second Venezuelans, who managed this feat.

In the pre-season of 2007, Sanchez injured his shoulder. He still played some games, but could not build on the achievements of the previous season. After being in May at the Albuquerque Isotopes - then still part of the organization of the Marlins - had been added to improve his form, he eventually had to undergo another operation in June. After a long convalescence he started on 31 July 2008 for the first time in an MLB game immediately with a victory against the Colorado Rockies. He remained until the end of the season in the starting rotation.

In Spring training 2009, Sánchez secured one of the five positions as a starting pitcher and reached in the season four victories in eight defeats and an ERA of 3.87. He pitched in 16 games overall only 86 innings because of a re- injury of the shoulder. In the winter of 2009/2010 he was the first time since 2006 to train injury free and came back into the starting rotation of the Marlins for the 2010 season.

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